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obama's speech were totally amazing and you know i got a call from somebody at the r. and c. said to me he couldn't believe how angry president clinton sounded and i thought that is the craziest thing i've ever heard so he was like a sushi chef you know i mean he was full lay in the republicans but he did it with the biggest smile. i thought so too and you know he did give credit to president george w. bush for his pepfar program in africa which is the one thing i always give president george w. bush credit for so i think you did a good job. compared i mean i think he did a great job republicans didn't really get much of a bounce coming out of their convention could this race get pretty lopsided coming if you know if there's this huge bump coming out of democrats and a going to happen and look i think we have to see what happens tonight the other thing is of course because of the tradition that the incumbent party goes last the problem is that everybody's paying more attention because it's after labor day. so that may also implements things quite a bit yeah you're abso
obama's speech were totally amazing and you know i got a call from somebody at the r. and c. said to me he couldn't believe how angry president clinton sounded and i thought that is the craziest thing i've ever heard so he was like a sushi chef you know i mean he was full lay in the republicans but he did it with the biggest smile. i thought so too and you know he did give credit to president george w. bush for his pepfar program in africa which is the one thing i always give president george...
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and by the way, after last night, i want a man who had the good sense to marry michelle obama! [cheering] i want barack obama to be the next president of the united states and! i proudly nominate him to be the standard bearer of the democratic party. now, folks, in tampa, a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk. oh, about how the president and the democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everybody to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy... this republican narrative, this alternative universe says that... every one of us in this room who amounts to anything, we are all completely self made. one of the greatest chairman of the democratic party ever had, bob strauss, used to say that every politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself. look, as strauss then admitted, it ain't so. we democrats, we think the country works better with a strong middle class, with real folks for poor folks to move into it with business and government actually working together to promote growth and br
and by the way, after last night, i want a man who had the good sense to marry michelle obama! [cheering] i want barack obama to be the next president of the united states and! i proudly nominate him to be the standard bearer of the democratic party. now, folks, in tampa, a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk. oh, about how the president and the democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everybody to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the...
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michelle obama the other night rocked the crowd. and president clinton just delivered in his usual self. it was like listening to a professor in the classroom, you have to show that it's real. and i loved it -- >> stephanie: it was stunning. it was just -- i -- you know breathtaking. i don't even know how -- and i thought a lot of the earlier ones. sister samone i thought was brilliant in taking down the immorality of paul ryan's budget -- >> and gets into the values that we ought to have. >> stephanie: yeah. and the story of the night, of course congressman is how much he was just riffing off prompter. >> yeah. but i think his cadence was established. but then the crowd was just appealing to the emotional impact, and, you know, it wasn't just sheer emotion. it was like look you can't afford to do this the wrong way. we have been there before. and he says we're not going to double down on trickle down. >> stephanie: yeah tony play this one. bill clinton last night. >> i want to go back to the same old policies that got us in trouble
michelle obama the other night rocked the crowd. and president clinton just delivered in his usual self. it was like listening to a professor in the classroom, you have to show that it's real. and i loved it -- >> stephanie: it was stunning. it was just -- i -- you know breathtaking. i don't even know how -- and i thought a lot of the earlier ones. sister samone i thought was brilliant in taking down the immorality of paul ryan's budget -- >> and gets into the values that we ought...
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we will see barack obama, michelle obama, and joe biden a lot more before the end of this campaign season. people were disappointed about today, but they will be very excited to help the team. they got the news yesterday, so they were ok with that. there were some local election officials that were here, and we tried to do the best we could for a couple of those. now there are watch parties all over charlotte and after parties. people are making the best of the situation. >> what kind of message does the president have to send tonight to win over voters in your state? >> the message is largely about the economy. north carolina has come out of the recession a little bit more slowly. what other reasons is because of state budget cuts that have cut so many public employees. one of the great things president obama did in the original stimulus was bunt teachers and police officers for up to years -- fund teachers and police officers. now the state legislature has cut a lot of those positions. we need to bring those back and get more private sector jobs. that is the kind of message we need, tha
we will see barack obama, michelle obama, and joe biden a lot more before the end of this campaign season. people were disappointed about today, but they will be very excited to help the team. they got the news yesterday, so they were ok with that. there were some local election officials that were here, and we tried to do the best we could for a couple of those. now there are watch parties all over charlotte and after parties. people are making the best of the situation. >> what kind of...
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he's following michele obama last night. >> right. >> how can you score in the place where michele obama just hit a grand slam and it turns out -- >> might as well say -- >> in that hall they're not measuring how far the home runs go. a home run is a home run. i would expect barack obama to step up and hit his home run and it will be judged as a home run. >> if he does, i've got to say, this will be remembered as one of the most successful conventions if you judge it by what a party needs to do and whether they hit that mark. >> execution. >> and, you know, tampa, you know, i think philadelphia is that way for republicans in 2000. we all left charged and ready to take the white house back. but boy, every day we get into this convention deeper. >> seemed disjointed. >> the weaker republicans seemed in tampa. >> they do. david maranis, thank you very much. >> sorry i mixed up the story. >> it's a great story though. >> "time" with the one nation subsidized how big government underwrites your life. coming up kristen gillibrand joins us, barney frank, jim clyburn and elijah cummings. keep it
he's following michele obama last night. >> right. >> how can you score in the place where michele obama just hit a grand slam and it turns out -- >> might as well say -- >> in that hall they're not measuring how far the home runs go. a home run is a home run. i would expect barack obama to step up and hit his home run and it will be judged as a home run. >> if he does, i've got to say, this will be remembered as one of the most successful conventions if you judge...
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>> first of all, you want a back to back to back home run because you like michelle obama's first speech, too. secondly, i think when he -- we wrote about this in the "huffington post." when barack obama came into office it was with the idea you could change the way politics operated. instantaneo instantaneously, largely because of the economic crisis he inherited, he had to be an operative inside the political system, play an inside game, get a stimulus passed. when they were crafting health care, they had to cut deals or thought they had to cut deals. i think what changed everything is the debt ceiling deal. they tried to negotiate something there. it blew up in their faces. they said, you know what, rather than catering to the political realities, we have to shape the political realities. it hasn't necessarily been successful. the jobs bill still stalled. they got the bpayroll tax cut. it's a different type of politics than we saw in the first years and it's carried over into this election. >> alex, isn't this to some extent a question of language and tone? actually, over the last cou
>> first of all, you want a back to back to back home run because you like michelle obama's first speech, too. secondly, i think when he -- we wrote about this in the "huffington post." when barack obama came into office it was with the idea you could change the way politics operated. instantaneo instantaneously, largely because of the economic crisis he inherited, he had to be an operative inside the political system, play an inside game, get a stimulus passed. when they were...
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michelle obama's speech was good. markell rubio's speech -- marco rubio's speech last week was good. going back and forth, trying to decide which way i will leave. i think it will come down to -- you can have a talking point and you can have these things you're going to do and say you are going to do all you want. it will come down to leadership. the bottom line for me as that barack obama had the control congress his first two years, he got nothing but his own way to do what he wanted to do. i am sorry. he rammed everything three. he did it in a matter of fact way and lost respect of his fellow constituents. the last two years with the republicans are getting a bad rep, beating not want to work with someone like that. >> levy dumping in -- let me jump in on that. let's go back to the floor. >> you probably could get a greater distance -- and that it greater distance between guam of florida. we begin with the mayor of riviera speech, florida. your thoughts? >> with the speech president clinton and left side of michell
michelle obama's speech was good. markell rubio's speech -- marco rubio's speech last week was good. going back and forth, trying to decide which way i will leave. i think it will come down to -- you can have a talking point and you can have these things you're going to do and say you are going to do all you want. it will come down to leadership. the bottom line for me as that barack obama had the control congress his first two years, he got nothing but his own way to do what he wanted to do. i...
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tomorrow it will be obama alone with michelle. that picture is very important. that president clinton delivered. here's another bit of the president going big time tonight. >> since 1961, for 52 years now, the republicans have held the white house 28 years. the democrats, 24. in those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private sector jobs. so what is the job score? republicans, 24 million. democrats, 42. >> wow! tonight you learn what the word surrogate means. that's a surrogate out there. bill clinton making the fight for barack obama. if you need someone in your corner, nobody is better than bill. for more i'm joined by the "huffington post." both are political analysts. look, is this the start of something big, joy? have they finally decided to put the surrogates on the road. michelle, bill clinton, all the best. instead of putting the juniors on. put the real big shots to defend they guy. >> if they're smart they'll take bill clinton's speech. cut i up into parts. each individual defense of policy and they will e-mail that to every other s
tomorrow it will be obama alone with michelle. that picture is very important. that president clinton delivered. here's another bit of the president going big time tonight. >> since 1961, for 52 years now, the republicans have held the white house 28 years. the democrats, 24. in those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private sector jobs. so what is the job score? republicans, 24 million. democrats, 42. >> wow! tonight you learn what the word surrogate means....
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i was thinking about michelle obama a second ago. you know you're popular and people are paying attention when everybody wants to know the color of the nail polish she was wearing the night of her speech. even her husband probably doesn't know the answer to that question. >> it was kind of a gray or pewter color. >> it's nail design called vogue. who knew? >> i noticed it in some of the pictures afterwards. michelle obama, always a trend setter. charlie was talking about that actually. he asked me -- >> i was thinking -- >> i didn't know she had nail polish on. >> there you go. >>> good morning, gayle. great to see you. >> good to see you guys. >>> president obama takes the stage tonight to accept the democratic nomination and try to convince voters that he deserves a second term. >> of course, his memorable speeches helped get him elected in 2008. bill plante, of course, has a preview of the speech tonight. he has a bird's eye view all the way at the podium position. >> good morning, charlie and norah. does the president have to tak
i was thinking about michelle obama a second ago. you know you're popular and people are paying attention when everybody wants to know the color of the nail polish she was wearing the night of her speech. even her husband probably doesn't know the answer to that question. >> it was kind of a gray or pewter color. >> it's nail design called vogue. who knew? >> i noticed it in some of the pictures afterwards. michelle obama, always a trend setter. charlie was talking about that...
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to call what first lady obama, michelle obama did on tuesday tonight a speech is to almost be an insult. that was a conversation. that was a national conversation about her values, her family values, and what she and the president, how they were raised. how he governs. that was enormous. that speech will be talked about for the next five decades in what michelle obama did. last night, bill clinton, that was a textbook explanation of what's really been going on over the last four years and the president broke it down as if he was talking to each of us individually in a personal conversation. he just laid out the case, which i think sets a platform for tonight, for the president to hit a home run. >> all right. one of the parts of political conventions when there's a president running for re-election a lot of chatter who is looking at 2016. you're going to like this, mr. mayor, cory booker visited the iowa delegation and revealed i had 94-year-old grandmother was born in iowa. >> the population of iowa grows -- there's way more people who say they have ties and people in iowa than people
to call what first lady obama, michelle obama did on tuesday tonight a speech is to almost be an insult. that was a conversation. that was a national conversation about her values, her family values, and what she and the president, how they were raised. how he governs. that was enormous. that speech will be talked about for the next five decades in what michelle obama did. last night, bill clinton, that was a textbook explanation of what's really been going on over the last four years and the...
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bill clinton hit a home run, michelle obama hit a home run. now it's barack obama to carry it forward. he can't get by with a ground ruled double tonight. he these hit a home run. i mean, they've set a bar that is that high. i mean, there have been two exceptional nights, michelle obama and bill clinton. and while david and i were quite admiring of governor christie in tampa, there was nobody at the republican event that established anything to the same standard, i think, that barack obama needs to do. >> ifill: the republican campaign officials told me that the first night with michelle obama was supposed to be about heart and values and the second night was the prosecution and what's tonight supposed to be about with the president? >> i hope it's about the future. it better be. as you say, we know about what's in him, we saw the argument against the republicans, i went back and read the speech this morning and when i was looking for what the future was going to be, there was nothing. there was one sentence. so that better be what this is abo
bill clinton hit a home run, michelle obama hit a home run. now it's barack obama to carry it forward. he can't get by with a ground ruled double tonight. he these hit a home run. i mean, they've set a bar that is that high. i mean, there have been two exceptional nights, michelle obama and bill clinton. and while david and i were quite admiring of governor christie in tampa, there was nobody at the republican event that established anything to the same standard, i think, that barack obama...
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. >> chenk, if we were going to base the election on twitter then the winner would be michelle obama. the most tweets her minute. she had 28,000 tweets per minute during we are speech, mitt romney in comparison was 14,000 tweets per minute. bill clinton did go up against football. we have to take that into consideration. we haven't even heard joe biden or president obama speak so far and already we're at 6.3 million tweets, far surpassing where the republican national convention was. what do we expect from obama tonight. >> i think it's going to be bigger than all of this, although they are going up against the music video awards on mtv. i wouldn't want to stack him against justin bieber. we saw obama for america had their first hash tag today strangely not highjacked. >> they've been highjacked by progressives. the obama campaign bought their first hash tag not highjacked. >> we saw that trending today bill clinton talking about that. i think what's been really interesting is new numbers from a pew study that came out today. how are we going to translate this, 16% have changed their
. >> chenk, if we were going to base the election on twitter then the winner would be michelle obama. the most tweets her minute. she had 28,000 tweets per minute during we are speech, mitt romney in comparison was 14,000 tweets per minute. bill clinton did go up against football. we have to take that into consideration. we haven't even heard joe biden or president obama speak so far and already we're at 6.3 million tweets, far surpassing where the republican national convention was. what...
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host: michelle obama has been around charlotte campaigning. guest: she has and she has been here in north carolina a fair amount. we have a significant number of military bases in north carolina and she has made that her platform and one of her important causes. she has been in north carolina a lot prior to this convention. i don't think there is any doubt that people of north carolina like the first lady. i think they like her personally and she is probably more popular than her husband in some parts of the country. when former president clinton was talking about how barack obama risch across the aisle and was not afraid to bring in the administration and people disagreed with him and president clinton said he hired hillary. that was a pretty effective moment. it was a lighter moment but it really resonated with the people in the a real fear. host: charles on our republican line -- caller: yes, sir, i wanted to comment about the bipartisan of president obama. when they went behind closed doors, they pushed through the health-care. i think we
host: michelle obama has been around charlotte campaigning. guest: she has and she has been here in north carolina a fair amount. we have a significant number of military bases in north carolina and she has made that her platform and one of her important causes. she has been in north carolina a lot prior to this convention. i don't think there is any doubt that people of north carolina like the first lady. i think they like her personally and she is probably more popular than her husband in...
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. >>> first lady michelle obama revealing the top ten reasons people should watch the democratic national convention. >> number 6. >> as healthy alternative, we're using low fat confetti. >> yeah. and number 4. >> there will be no kiss cam. >> oh, come on. why not? number 2. >> joe biden says it will be a big you know what deal. >> gretchen: the first lady no strange tort david letterman show. that was her second appearance in just the last week. wow. those are your headlines. >> brian: to my immediate left is someone on the set, welcome back michelle malkin. >> thank you, and no kiss cam here. >> brian: i want to get your impression of bill clinton's 48 minute speech last night. any surprises? do you think it was effective in endorsing president obama? >> who is surprised? after years and years of covering him when he wasn't in the white house, is it any surprise that's undisciplined, self someonent? these are the adjectives that came out of the headlines there. and you wonder what does this serve other than bill clinton's ego? >> gretchen: i think does wonders for president obama. if yo
. >>> first lady michelle obama revealing the top ten reasons people should watch the democratic national convention. >> number 6. >> as healthy alternative, we're using low fat confetti. >> yeah. and number 4. >> there will be no kiss cam. >> oh, come on. why not? number 2. >> joe biden says it will be a big you know what deal. >> gretchen: the first lady no strange tort david letterman show. that was her second appearance in just the last...
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michelle obama knows him as a man. this man, the vice president, knows him as a president like nobody else know himself. i think he communicated that tonight. >> i totally agree. i think that bridges something ed said. nobody needs joe biden to be introduced to them. joe biden has a particularity as a politician who first ran for president in, what, 1987? he's been around for a long time. he's been in washington forever. he's a familiar and familial figure, almost. i actually think part of this reassurance role he was playing was at the best in one of rocky. at one point he said folks, i. kwa watched him, he never waivers. he steps up. he asks over and over again, how is this going to help ordinary families? he says that's what's inside this man. that's what makes him tick. trust me. you know me, i'm joe biden and i'm telling you, this guy is the real deal. that's applying the full joe biden. the question whether there are still people uncomfortable with the coolness of barack obama. >> this is the great irony and para
michelle obama knows him as a man. this man, the vice president, knows him as a president like nobody else know himself. i think he communicated that tonight. >> i totally agree. i think that bridges something ed said. nobody needs joe biden to be introduced to them. joe biden has a particularity as a politician who first ran for president in, what, 1987? he's been around for a long time. he's been in washington forever. he's a familiar and familial figure, almost. i actually think part...
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the only person that could top michelle obama was bill clinton. the only person who could possibly possibly even keep up with bill clinton is barack obama. so when you put those three boom boom, boom, not to mention you know, joe biden, elizabeth warren and sandra fluke and emennual clever and duvall patrick jumping in, boy, what a great line-up. in oakland california, hey shawn, what do you say, good morning. >> caller: good morning, bill. how you doing? >> bill: i'm doing good. what are your thoughts about last night? >> caller: absolutely bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, a grand slam! >> bill: you got it. outta the park, baby! >> caller: out taf the park. it was just funny how this morning, i turn it over to news to see what their response was and morning joe you know. the haters are out there. talking about how bill clinton really doesn't like barack obama. >> bill: oh, bull -- i'm sorry. b. s. >> caller: they don't get it. they aren't going to get it. we need a million more like him, bill. >> bill: thank you shawn. this idea they're tryi
the only person that could top michelle obama was bill clinton. the only person who could possibly possibly even keep up with bill clinton is barack obama. so when you put those three boom boom, boom, not to mention you know, joe biden, elizabeth warren and sandra fluke and emennual clever and duvall patrick jumping in, boy, what a great line-up. in oakland california, hey shawn, what do you say, good morning. >> caller: good morning, bill. how you doing? >> bill: i'm doing good....